Steve Gunn: Obama birth certificate

Steve GunnYou may have missed Steve Gunn's May 12 column "Obama could have stopped 'birthers' a long time ago," but 93 Chronicle readers had posted comments underneath it by noon on May 13. Gunn said he "never put much stock in the theory that Barack Obama was not a naturally born American citizen." He added, "President Obma could have ended all of this nonsense by offering his cooperation."

"Sorry it took me so long to get you the birth certificate. I was busy killing Osama Bin Laden."

Perhaps he had "other" things to worry about instead of satisfying the ridiculous people

Commenter jack still believes Obama is in violation of the Constitution:

You need to go to Bing and enter the words "natural born
citizen". Read the Wikipedia definition and discussion, then scroll down
to the two lines discussing the recent deletion of information from
Wikipedia. People who do not want the true arguement understood have
altered the definition. The true legal definition has not been changed,
and the intent of the framers was stated in their letters to agree with
the de Vattel definition, thereby eliminating the possibility of foriegn
allegiance. The birth certificate escapade is just a media enhanced
smoke screen to cover the true legal problem. A lot of people fell for
it. His father was not a US citizen. He is a normal citizen by birth to a
citizen mother and birth in the US to the same, but not a "Natural Born
Citizen". Do some research instead of just repeating somebody elses
uninformed opinion.

The entire McCain question lasted maybe a week.
The birthers have been laboring over this nonsense for a couple years
now. The State of Hawaii verified Obama was a natural born citizen
shortly after his nomination. This has been a Republican witch hunt for
the sole purpose of keeping the issue of his legitimacy burning in the
front of the minds of a wacko crowd of idiots, whose beleaguering of the
issue only serves to the feed racial hatred or the far right.

I like obama but actually he should have been required to
prove his citizenship before taking office. Given the constitutional law
involved and the question presented he should have come clean
immeadiately. Our leaders should not play games with their constituents.
That is childish behavior coming from the most powerful man in the
world.